Rachel Quotes
However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.
the nurse smiled and patted my arm. “Don’t give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written The End, what he really means is The Beginning.
Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home—these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.
(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.
Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He bears them.
Midnight's the only time where you can be both in the past, present, and future.
How far we go to seek redemption, but in all these, have we really sacrificed enough to find our peaceful place?
I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.
By making yourself a life-long leaner you’ll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.
Living is hard--dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really--except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.
I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don’t really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn’t.- Hope
I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever.
Snowball?"It's white."Meow."It's so girly."This from a guy who named his poodle Princess."his laughter died. "How do you know about Princess?"Your sister told me.
If ever there was something she needed to stick around and fight for, Luc was that something.
People make mistakes all the time – some of us just are in more of a position to leave an impact when we do.
That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.
I don’t need another ‘adversity builds character’ speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where’s your adversity?”Darren raised a brow. “I’m looking at it.
Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He’s a prince, and he’s only going to break your heart.
Anything for Byron’s least favorite apprentice. It’s the least I can do since you took over my torch.
You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.
Shane kissed her one more time, lightly and softly, and fluffed her hair back from her face. “To be continued, ” he said. “I hate cliff-hangers.” “Blame Eve.
I’m not like you. I’ve never cared about keeping relationships or sparing people’s feelings. All I’ve ever cared about is power: how to get it, and how to keep it. I told you as much when we met.
Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.
Well done, Darren!” Master Byron was full of praise for the prince. “What did you use to cast it?”Darren’s eyes found mine. “Something I don’t regret.
So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?
Kiss me, babe."'"No, really." Beneath the light of a sixty-watt bulb on her porch, Adele Harris placed a hand on the chest of her latest date. "I've had enough excitement for one night.
We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.
Hope is a beautiful and magical thing. Grasp it tight, monsieur, and never let go.
I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.
What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?
We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved.
We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...
He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.
How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.
Scripture doesn’t speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
Faith is something you take a day at a time, not something you figured out at the start
Church isn’t about you! It’s about worshipping Jesus. Instead of being consumers, let’s go to church and ask what we can give Jesus because of all he has given us.
There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.
Wilhelm Dilthey puts it rather starkly, "Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, but what appeared was the church.
Seems to me that for you, evangelicalism is like the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago, but whose Facebook page you still check compulsively.
In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.